Center-bearing plate for vehicles



(No Model.)

D. L. BARNES. CENTER BEARING PLATE FOR VEHICLES. No. 468,471. Patented Feb. 9, 1892.

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DAVID L. BARNES, OF CHICAGO, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOX SOLID PRESSED STEEL COMPANY, OF .IOLIET, ILLINOIS.

CENTER-BEARING PLATE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,471, dated February 9, 1892.

Application filed October 15, 1891. Serial No. 408,747. (No model.)

To all 2072,0111, it may concern: tacle for oil, which in many of the forms of Be it known that I, DAVID L. BARNES, of plate now known flows out through the cen- Chicago, Cook county, and State of Illinois, ter opening and cannot be retained. By reahave invented a new and useful Improvement son of the bending upward at the center of 5 in Center Plates for Moving Vehicles, of which these plates a more uniform bearing and sup the following is a full, true, and exact specitiport is obtained between the plates than is cation, reference being had to the accompathe case when they are made flat, for,it being nying drawings. impossible to make two surfaces in dies ab- This invention relates to an improvement solutely true, there are invariably parts in to in center plates for moving vehicles, espewhich the pressure is greater than others.

cially of the kind usually made of pressed Openings P are left in the center for the passteel. By it a stronger and better plate is sage of the king-bolt, as usual. made, and a plate is made in which the. oil is It is obvious that though the upper and retained in the manner hereinafter to be delower plates are specially adapted to be used I 5 scribed. together, yet either may be used separately My invention will be readily understood with any plate adapted to work with it. from the accompanying drawings, in which hat I claim as my invention, and desire Figure 1 represents a plan view of the top to secure by Letters Patent, is plate; Fig. 2, a View halt in perspective 1. A center plate formed of a single piece 20 through Fig. 1 on the line y g showing only of pressed metal having a downwardly-prothe upper plate; Fig. 3, a view half in section jecting portion substantially vertical to emand half in perspective through Fig. 1 on the brace the upper plate, an inwardly-projecting line 9: 06, showing both plates; Fig. 4, a top portion at the bottom of the plate, and an View of the bottom plate; and Fig. 5, a view upwardly-projecting portion at the center of 25 half in section and half in perspective on the the plate surrounding the king-bolt hole and line 3 y, showing both plates. bent at an angle to the adjacent portion, sub- The upper plate A consists, generally, of a stantially as described. horizontal portion B, a vertical portion C, an 2. An upper center plate having an inapproximately horizontal portion D, and an wardly-extending portion B, the substantially o inclined portion E. The lower plate F convertical portion C, the inwardly-projecting sists of the inclined portion G, the approXiportion D, and the upwardly-projecting pormately vertical portion H, the horizontal portion E at an angle to the portion D, substantion K, and the upwardly inclined portion L. tially as described. The lower plate is turned down at its edges, 3. The combination of the plate A, having 3 5 having flanges N, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, the parts B, C, D, and E bent as shown, with while the upper plate is turned upward at its the plate F, having the parts C, II, K, and L, edges, as shown in M, forming upper flanges substantially as described. for the reception of the transom. By making 4:. The center plate A, having the parts B, the sides of the lower and upper plate verti- C, D, and E and the flanges M M, substan- 0 cal, as shown, the tendency of the upper plate tially as described.

to jump out of the lower one when the sides In testimony whereof I have signed my are inclined is greatly diminished. By turnname to this specification in the presence of ing upward the center portions of the upper two subscribing witnesses. and lower plates these plates are greatly 5 strengthened, this bending upward serving DAVID BARNES as a corrugation to strengthen these portions, Witnesses: and the lower plate, being bent upward at its J. B. BRADY, outer and inner portions, serves as a recep- J. O. JAGQUETT. 

